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Denison Court, Denison Street, NOTTINGHAM, NG7 3PH

This picture is taken across Alfreton Road from Peveril Street, the photographer standing unsteadily on a pallet-load of bricks in order to include sixteenth-century Wollaton Hall on the horizon two miles away (the pale blob just to the right of centre, above the line of cars). One of several tower blocks in this part of Radford edges into the left of the picture.

This open space on the south side of Hartley Road in Radford may have been the site of a turning circle used by buses on the old Nottingham City Transport route 58, which terminated hereabouts. The old 58 replaced the trams between here and Nottingham city centre via Radford, Lenton and Castle Boulevards, but was itself replaced by circular routes 8 and 9 around 1980, meaning buses no longer terminated here. The distinctively styled high rise flats in the background stand out all the more thanks to the rarity of such structures in Nottingham.

Victorian pub on Hartley Road, Radford. Featuring the ghost of a painted sign. An opposing view here: Image

The Woodland group of high-rise flats which dominates the Radford skyline as Players cigarette factory did in earlier years. Independent Street playground is in the foreground.

The former corner shop is now occupied by the Jukebox Cafe, a 1950s American style diner.

Now looking rather out of place being dwarfed by blocks of high rise flats, the Colonel Burnaby is in a similar situation to many inner city pubs that survived slum clearance projects. It is located on Hartley Road at its junction with Denison Street (left).

Bentinck Road school is on the corner of Bentinck Road. The right-hand side of Alfreton Road is made up of a mixture of Georgian and Victorian buildings. The white building to the right, once The Spread Eagle public house, was a childhood home of the philosopher Herbert Spencer.

Looking towards Alfreton Road on a bright September morning. Three-storey houses like these were built in huge numbers in Nottingham in the last quarter of the nineteenth century.

The name dates this pub to the period immediately following the Crimean War. Of particular interest however is the adjacent house which retains its top-storey framework knitters windows, the only remaining example in Nottingham.

Ordnance Survey rivet benchmark described on the Bench Mark Database at http://www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm35120